dump truck n.— «Mr. Minkin is what some drug lawyers deride as a “dump truck,” an attorney whose clients plead guilty and cooperate. Indeed, the 59-year-old Mr. Minkin says he is “second to none in…knowing how to...
dump truck n.— «dump truck (dump truk) n. Slang. A criminal lawyer who seldom fights a case, but who plea-bargains his way to a fast guilty plea.» —“Fifth Column; Law And Society” by Clayton Ruby Globe and...
dump truck n.— «Some lawyers contend that a handful of high-volume practitioners like Stern have bled the Ontario Legal Aid Plan dry by setting up veritable plea factories. They’ve even given them a name: “dumptrucks...
dump truck n.— «Clients often refer to their public defenders as “dump trucks,” a term that apparently derives from the defendant’s belief that defenders are not interested in giving a vigorous defense, but rather seek only to...
dump truck n.— «“Dump truck” is what attorney’s call other attorney’s who mostly just plead their clients guilty, instead of trying cases.» —“Arizona DUI” Law Office Of David Alan Darby (Tucson, Ariz.) Mar...
dump truck n.— «“One of the cruel ironies is that on the tier in any prison, the person most inmates name as responsible for them being there is ‘the dump truck P.D.,’” said David Coleman, the public defender in Contra Costa County...